servile
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English servyle, from Old French servil, servile, from Latin servīlis, from servus (“slave”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈsɜː(ɹ)ˌvaɪl/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈsəɹ.vəl/, /ˈsəɹˌvaɪl/
Adjective
[edit]servile (comparative more servile, superlative most servile)
- Excessively eager to please; obsequious.
- 2021, Ed Vulliamy, The Guardian[1]:
- British “subjects” (not citizens, note) are just that: gleefully servile to the monarchy’s institutionalised inequality...
- Slavish or submissive.
- Synonym: abject
- Antonyms: arrogant, authoritarian
- servile flattery servile obedience
- Of or pertaining to a slave.
- c. 1699 – 1703, Alexander Pope, “The First Book of Statius His Thebais”, in The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, volume I, London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintot, […], published 1717, →OCLC:
- Even fortune rules no more, O servile land!
- (grammar) Not belonging to the original root.
- a servile letter
- (grammar) Not sounded, but serving to lengthen the preceding vowel, like the e in tune.
Derived terms
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[edit]Translations
[edit]of or pertaining to a slave
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slavish or submissive
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Noun
[edit]servile (plural serviles)
Antonyms
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[edit]French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]servile (plural serviles)
Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “servile”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
[edit]Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]servile (plural servili)
Derived terms
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[edit]Latin
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /serˈu̯iː.le/, [s̠ɛrˈu̯iːɫ̪ɛ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /serˈvi.le/, [serˈviːle]
Adjective
[edit]servīle
See also
[edit]Middle English
[edit]Adjective
[edit]servile
- Alternative form of servyle
Spanish
[edit]Verb
[edit]servile
- second-person singular voseo imperative of servir combined with le
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